Apple Drops The Cocoa-Java Bridge – OSnews

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1- Cocoa-Java is a bridge between the Java programming language and the Cocoa Framework – Apple dropping Cocoa-Java has nothing to do with Intel transition, or anything else outside of the fact that maintaining a bridge that only a handful of applications of ever used – was pointless.

2- Cocoa-Java has nothing to do with Java, or Swing or AWT, Apple dropping the Cocoa-Java bridge will have not effect on an Java application, period.

3- Apple dropping Cocoa-Java is good and keeps inline with Sun’s and Java’s cross-platform ideology.

4- Objective-C will stay and with Apple adding ever more to the Cocoa framework will make Objective-C and Cocoa ever more attractive.

5- Objective-C ran on x86 long before it ran on the Macintosh, why would apple drop it when Objective-C and Cocoa goes back to x86?

6- Apple dropping Cocoa-Java does not mean the Apple is dropping Java.

7- By all accounts Cocoa is only possible because of Objective-C and its Dynamic nature, it would be very difficult to develop a Cocoa framework in almost any language that exists today.

8- As for those geniuses claiming Apple should drop Java, Cocoa, and Objective-C for .NET or Mono because of the shift to Intel. Just because Apple changes a processor does not mean that suddenly that Apple will rewrite the Majority of its Applications written in Objective-C, just to please Microsoft lock-ins. A move to .NET or Mono would mean ripping out over 20 years of NextStep and Cocoa development and Frameworks, Like Aqua, Core-Data, Core-Image, Core-Video, iLife, iWork, out of Mac OS X and replacing it with huge chunks of property Windows code OS or a very immature open source project

“Mono” that could be killed by Microsoft in a heart beat through patents.

Apple dropping Cocoa-Java is a non-news event nothing to see move on folks.